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Backlash against trans and nonbinary authorship rippled across the global art scene, while book bans and drag queens still dominated local chatter in the U.S.
But it wasn’t all bad news. Queer stories continued to thrive where risk and imagination are valued, from indie films that brilliantly explored queerness as both an identity and lived culture, to TV series that embedded LGBTQ characters into smart ensemble storytelling without apology.
Over eight 11-minute episodes, the Adult Swim show crams buckets of plot and more plot twists than can be counted on both hands into the wild tale of a Spanish guinea pig entrepreneur and her rivalry with a butcher shop mogul for control over the rodent’s fate in Ecuador. The film will make everyone who did not get to see Newsome’s multimedia production in person regretful yet grateful that this fabulous film exists to show them what they missed.
Melling spent time with the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club to prepare for the role. But the real hook is its bait-and-switch premise, revealed only as mainstream conservative scandal gives way to a lesbian network operating in plain sight.
Winner Onya Nurve and runner-up Jewels Sparkles embodied that sweet spot, balancing exceptional craft, comedic chaos, and genuine warmth while also making the most of the unscripted brand as a career launchpad and artistic playground.
—AF
“Hedda”
“Hedda” wears the clothes of a prestige period drama, but its queerness is far from ornamental. Over the summer, Pride marketing declined across major movie brands, and by the fall, streaming services had announced several cancellations of well-loved queer TV shows. In a sea of shows that are afraid of “bad representation,” “Pluribus” isn’t afraid to make its lesbian lead messy, strange, and fully, unmistakably human.
Based on Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel, the film is now streaming on Netflix and HBO Max.
Jimpa
Jimpa stars John Lithgow as an ageing gay man living in Amsterdam.
That Mackay has made four features in just six years — all this confident and increasingly playful — marks her as a force to watch. From what we know about Red, White And Royal Blue 2
Magnus Juhl Andersen and Nina Terese Rask in Sauna. One of them, though, wants to leave the country, which splits the movie into parallel directions, between the Vietnam War and the real-life horror story of 39 Vietnamese refugees found in a refrigerated truck in 2019.
The flawed friendship between the nonbinary police officer and queer youth suffering under the wilderness-driven education methods of Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette) was earnest and endearing. Directed by Nia DaCosta and adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, the film offers a queer reimagining of the classic story.
—WC
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Seventeen seasons into making her-story, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” spent 2025 doing what it does best: turning queer joy into a global spectator sport. The film is distributed by A24 and released in cinemas in the UK in late November, with a US release to follow.
On Swift Horses
On Swift Horses tells parallel stories of queer desire in post-war America.
Pretty much every character in this wild tale is a woman, and their relationships — adversarial, familial, and sexual — supply the soapiest and most sincere moments of a show that manages to mock and embody the elements of its melodrama. —AF
“Twinless”
James Sweeney’s sophomore feature, “Twinless” works as both a horrifying queer thriller and a discomfortingly funny dark comedy.